1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // checkstyle: Checks Java source code and other text files for adherence to a set of rules.
3 // Copyright (C) 2001-2025 the original author or authors.
4 //
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9 //
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14 //
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18 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19
20 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
21
22 /**
23 * A block of text from an input file that does not necessarily
24 * have any grammatical structure.
25 *
26 */
27 public interface TextBlock {
28
29 /**
30 * The text content of the text block.
31 * Each line is represented by one array entry.
32 * The linebreak characters are not part of the text content.
33 *
34 * @return the text content of the text block.
35 */
36 String[] getText();
37
38 /**
39 * The line in the input file where the text block starts.
40 * Counting starts from 1.
41 *
42 * @return first line of the text block
43 */
44 int getStartLineNo();
45
46 /**
47 * The last line of the text block in the input file.
48 * Counting starts from 1.
49 *
50 * @return last line of the text block
51 */
52 int getEndLineNo();
53
54 /**
55 * The column in the input file where the text block starts.
56 * Counting starts from 0.
57 *
58 * @return first line of the text block
59 */
60 int getStartColNo();
61
62 /**
63 * The column in the input file where the text block ends.
64 * Counting starts from 0.
65 *
66 * @return last line of the text block
67 */
68 int getEndColNo();
69
70 /**
71 * Checks if this comment intersects with a specified
72 * part of the file.
73 *
74 * @param startLineNo the starting line number in the file
75 * @param startColNo the starting column number in the file
76 * @param endLineNo the ending line number in the file
77 * @param endColNo the ending column number in the file
78 * @return true if the positions intersects with this comment.
79 */
80 boolean intersects(int startLineNo, int startColNo,
81 int endLineNo, int endColNo);
82
83 }